Author: James Robertson
Date: 19:45:23 06/18/99
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On June 18, 1999 at 22:31:06, Rodney Topor wrote: >>I said before the tournament that Fritz has no chance to win because it is a >>stupid root processor but after seeing the results of Fritz I start to suspect >>that chessbase improved Fritz and it is not a root processor(of course it is >>also possible that Fritz was lucky). >> >>Uri > >Um, excuse my ignorance, but what's a "root processor"? > >Rodney A root processor, as opposed to a non-root processer is a search that scores the position once at the beginning of the search and then only scores the resulting positions if there was an exchange of material (maybe it also keeps track of piece square tables too, since they are speedy). This makes for a _very_ fast search, but the program is substantially stupider positionally. AFAIK, this sums it up. Uri might be able to embellish this more. James
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